Car-truck.



WK H. YOST.

CAR TRUCK. APPLICATION EIQBD DBG.20.1911.

Patented Deo. 24, 1912.

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W. H.YOST.

CAR TRUCK.

APPLIGATION FILED 11116.20, 1911,

1 ,048,022. v Patenteda Dec. 24, 1912.

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W.'H. YOST.

GAR TRUCK.

APPLIoATIoN FILED 39110.20. 1911.

Patented Dec. 24,191.2.

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'UNTTED STATES PATENT onirica.

WINFIELD HANCOCK YOST, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA, ASSIGNOR T0 THE HART- OTIS CAR COMPANY LIIIVII'JIED, OF MONTREAL, CANADA, A CORPORATION.

CAR-TRUCK.

Specification of VLetters Patent. Patented Dec. 24, 1.912.

Application filed December 20, 1911. Serial No. 667,010.

To oli whom it may cof/zoem:

Be 1t known that I ,lVrnninLn HANoooK YosT, a citizen of the United States', resid-v ing inthe city of Montreal, Irovince of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Trucks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a ull, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention is particularly adapted 'for application 4to the trucks of dump cars and it has for its object to provide a novel means for preventing material from lodging between the brake beam and contiguous parts and interfering with the proper operation of the brakes, the invention being particularly designed to prevent material such as stones, pieces of coal or the like becoming jammed between the brake beam and theusual spring planks of the truck which extend transversely of the latter" adjacent the brake beam.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of they objects and advantages thereof reference will 'be had to thefollow-y 1 that material which may drop down upon ing description and appended vclaims. and to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar reference characters indicate thev same parts and wherein-w Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of a car truck having 'my invention bodied therein; Fig. 2 is a plan View of one side thereof; and Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sect-ion taken on the line 3 3 Fig. 2, a portion of the car body bolster being shown.

Referring now to the drawings 1 indicates the wheels of a car truck, 2 the axles, 4 the journal boxes, 5 and 6 thetop and bottom arch bars respectively, 7 the tie bars, 8 the truck columns, which latter havesecured thereto the brake hanger brackets 9, from which are suspended the brake hangers 10 carrying the brake beam 11 with its brake heads and brake shoes-12 and 13 respectively. Ofthe brake operating means the dead lever is shown at 141 and is pivoted on the dead lever stop 15, and connected to z the live lever 16 by the bottom connection 17, these levers fulcruming upon the usual brake beam fulcrnms 18 and 19. The truck and body bolster areindicated at 20 and 21 respectively in Fig. 3. All these parts may? be of usual or ap roved type, the detail construction thereo forming no part of the'l present invention. v l 2l indicates the 1s the name usually given to the beams which extend transversely of the truck adjacent the brake beams and tie together the lower arch bars 6 and have the springs 22 resting on the-ends thereof, In order to preventspring planks, which with horizontal top and bottom anges 21 and 21", the top flanges 21a projecting over the brake beam. As sliown in Fig. 2 these top flanges do not extend the full length of the spring pla/nks but are cnt. oil' at each end at points just inside the brake heads to allow of movementof the latter.

It will be clearly seen by referring to Fig.

or adjacent the brake beam will be pre- 'vented lodging in the space, indicated at w,

between the latter and the spring planks and preventing release of the brakes.

I claim:

1. In a car track, the combination with a brake beam and spring plank spaced laterally from one another, of a Covering device extending across. the space between the spring plank and brake beam, and projecting over the latter.

2.111 a car truck, the combination Witha brake beam and spring plank located-substa-ntially in the same horizontal plane andy spaced laterally apart from one another, of a member connected at onev side to the said spring plank and projecting therefrom over the brake beam and adapted to cover the space between `the latter and the spring plank, for the purpose set forth.

'3. In a car truck,` the combination withV the spring plank and brake beam extending adjacent each other, of a device located below the car body and' adapted to cover the space between the spring plank and brake beam.

4. A car truck having its spring lanks of Z-form in cross section with its anges E v v 1,048,022

horizontally disposed and the top one pro- In testimony whereof, I have signed my jecting over the brake beam. name to this specification, in the presence 5. In a car truck, the combination With of two subscribing witnesses. the spring plank Aand brake beam thereof, WINFIELD HANCOCK YOST. 'o of a member formed integral with the spring Witnesses:

plank and projecting over and adapted to ALEX CURRIE,

cover the brake-beam. y FRED. J. LAW. 

